At this moment there are great changes happening in the Nicoya, Guanacaste area: two new bridges that pass by two of the main roads of Nicoya are being re-built. Although this is actually great news since both bridges were pretty much un-usable, the construction work over the Grande and Perico rivers, are causing terrible traffic congestion for drivers. The Perico river bridge has already been demolished and the construction is quite advanced, yet the old bridge has already been taken down, meaning that traffic in the area is hectic due to these constructions.

 

As I have stated on previous entries, Costa Rica properties have different values depending on the area, like anywhere else; yet, Guanacaste is experiencing a huge increase in the real estate market, Guanacaste and San Jose especially, given the fact that all these development projects are making the area a lot more fancy and services have become a lot easier to access from there.

 

The good thing is that now that the access to the Nicoya area is going to be renewed, all those development projects planned will move faster than expected. Real estate in Guanacaste was kind of in a stand by situation for a while, not only because of the governments concerns about threats to the environment, but also because the construction processes were a bit slow in some of the locations, such as Nicoya. Hopefully the construction of the thee bridges will be done soon, maybe the beginning of 2009, that way new properties in Guanacaste can be put on the market sooner than later, also the development projects will be able to begin operations and the Nicoya hotels and villas can take advantage of them a lot faster than they used to.

 

So far, I am happy with I am seeing and although the traffic issue is of concern, people will just have to be patient about it to enjoy the new upcoming bridges.